Synopsis
A series of dubious motels and hotels are pit-stops in the scandalous road trip embarked on by titular Lolita (
Sue Lyon), the underage American “nymphet,” and lascivious Humbert Humbert (
James Mason), the infatuated Euro academic who is her kidnapper/stepfather/suitor, in
Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of
Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel. Kubrick, as demonstrated again in 1980’s
The Shining, knew a thing or two about using hotels as cinematic space; he also knew a thing or two about comedy – dark, satirical comedy – as he reveals here for the very first time (and again in
Dr. Strangelove, his follow-up). Made from a double-entendre-filled (and Oscar-nominated) script by Nabokov himself.
